Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
tank bow - set my mind at ease!
A pic would be handy
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i dont have a specific pic of the bow
will post one shortly but see general pic of tank below
its a clearseal tank with the usual
4 pieces of glass siliconed together
sitting on a base
its actually a used tank from a member here
but i removed glass fins they had running the length of the tank to sit glass lids on
Im sure its fine as its a known brand
and is built braceless as far as i can tell
cheers
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Fingers crosssed
Daragh
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4 definately go with plattys suggestion, they where put there for a reason, for support so unless you want a pool in your room some morning fix it asap.. LB do the same mate, yes yours is holding for the moment but that could change in an instant
Seamus have you not seen my tank since I put that brace back in?
by the way you should call over for a look, its looking great now and i have a lot of new fish
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this has been a self-inflicted nightmare
i reinstalled the braces a couple of weeks ago but one snapped, i had a chat with a guy who used build tanks and he said that
i squeezed too much silicone out by clamping too tight, he said it should have a little play, the tank still bowed by about 1mm after bracing and because the brace was so tight to the glass it was enough to snap it,
so i stripped them out again and reinstalled last night,
now i have gone the opposite way and had too much silicone and one of the braces
was still floppy this evening, so off it came and I will try again tommorrow, all my plants are sitting in a bucket with a heater in it
gosh, that was boring but it may be helpful to the next poor sod who makes a bad decision to remove their braces!
one month on and im back to square one
on my aga entry
an unplanted planted tank! ah well , at least i learned somethingrgds
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